St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-25

how much this was going to
DAMAGE HER COMMERCE.
The committee wanted to present an OPP
portunity for good reflection. 1t would not
be necessary for the president of the United
States to issue proclamation of entire SuS-
pension OF commercial relations with Can
ada or with any other part of Great Britain.
! He was quite sure that when Canadian
fisherman found that there was no market
| in the United States for pound of their
/ fish they would at once conS the pocket
nerve. 1t would be found quite easy to az
/ range all difficulties without resorting to
the war-making powers There was no war
in this measure. There was peace in it
and nothing else. But if the troubles were
allowed to 90 on there would be war i'll
them and war beyond the control of con-
gress. The first blood that would be drawn
in controversy of this kind on the Cana
dian coast would be the tocsin of war The
people of the United States would
be plunged into war by this just
as rapidly as they had been by
John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry.
| And they would go into it unanimously.
American fishermen would find, in defense
of their rights. just as much support on the
Gulf of Mexico as on the coast of Maine
1t was, therefore. worth while for both
power of law that might be necessary to
prevent a conflict between individuals by
which
\ WAR MIGHT BE PRECIPITATED
! beyond tile power of congress to control.
! The senate could not afford to stand still
/ under those circumstances. The commit
| tee on foreign relations had felt that it
would not be eXcusable if, in such an ext
gency, 1t declined to act in q matter Of so great
| importance. MI EvartS argued in support
Of the bill, which, he said. was not i'll the
nature of a menace or tending at all in that
direction. 1t was the duty of congress, he
! said, TO take the subject away from local
| disturbance, irritation and resentment. SO
far from the bill tending to war or tending
to umbrage it was intended to have COIL
| trary effect 1t was an Immediate an
nouncement to the people that they had
only to trust their protection, not to per
sOnal resentment but to the government of
the United States, and when the opening
summer should bring about the recurrence
| of the fishing season and of the fishing
dangers the question would be removed
from that theater of collision. and. if not
concluded, it would be under the control of
both governments in a deliberate cOnsidera-
ton of what should be done in order to
have stability of intercourse and in order to
give stability to the peace and dignity Of
the two great nationS-the United States
and Great Britain. Mr.. Hale declared him.
self earnestly in favor of the bill. Its pro-
visions were not harsh, but moderate; and
he believed that their provisions, when en-
acted into law and carried out by the eX-
ecutiye, would be efficacous. The situation
for year past had been
SIMPLY INTOLERABLE.
A
ests by the Dominion authorities had been
persisted i'll against every eXpOstulaton and
entreaty on the part of the United States.
They were such as had never been sub
mitted to since the infant days of the re-
public He was bound to believe that those
aggressions on the right of American cti
ZenS (high-handed as they had BEEN had
not been brought about by accident, but
were the result of deliberate generalization
and predetermination. If these acts did
not cease, that was an end Of negotiations
and there must be some other process re-
sorted to. The least desired pro
cess is the appeal to that most
formidable tribunal-declared hostilitie:
war. He thought the proposed
retaliatory measures would bring our neigh
bors to their senses. but until the American
congress should Send this note-not of men
ace. bat OF warnlng-these things would con
tinue. Mr.. Vest said ut goes without saying
that if the rights of the humblest citizen o.
, the United States shall be attacked by any
foreign power. there would exist an unan-
unity of sentiment on the part of the people
Of the United States that those
RIGHTS SHOULD BE PROTECTED,
and that the glory and honor of the Ameri
can people should be preserved. AS the
senator from Alabama has very we'll said
there will be no geographical or sectiona
difference if this issue is ever made, and /
will be found that the men who wert
arrayed against each other in battl,
so lately will stand together III solid pha
5 lanX in defense Of these rights and honor
But. Mr.. President, all this talk which run
to meet any such thing as war with thu
other great English-Speaking people of TIL
world is to be deprecated. 1t is enough TO
us to meet any such contingency when it il
absolutely impossible to avoid it. AS TO
myself, l can safely say that | have no sor
of prejudice in favor of England or her in
situations which prevents me now from
saying that l would not hesitate one singl,
instant as to the consequences if the ISSUE
} OF individual rights or national honor bt
5 presented to this congress or the people
l But it becomes us, Mr.. President, to con
slider well every step we take in regard t.
g this
MOST PEEILoUS COMPLICATION.
S England was not without some pretenS'
OF right in her construction Of the treaty o
: 1918. In relation to ti'ese fishery difficult
ties Great Britain stood to the United
States precisely as the United States hat
S stood in relation to Mexico when the diff
: ficultieS on the Rio Grande brought abou
S the Mexican war. Every intelligent MAJ
famed into flame difficulties which o
!, themselves might be susceptible of ad
/ juStment. OF all the calamitie
!, that could befell this country a war be
= tween Great Britain and the United State
= would be the greatest The pending bill
for which he expected to vote) comes be
fore the senate in the nature of a PROPOSE
h tion for a commercial embargo. Ifnot war
e it was the half-sster of war. Still, h
/ would vote for the bill because it con
Il tanned provision that the president SHOULD
! have the discretionary power in the matter
e He would not vote for it as mandat0r
J.. bill. He would not take the responsibility
: of saying the president should
d DECLARE THIS EMBARGO
= while negotiations were still pending. ant
e while senators know the full results O
l what war with Great Britain might mean
: 1t was well enough to talk in rhetorica
e style about war with Great Britain. Whel
II they come to the matter of military re
f sources, there were some things which ha
o better be said in secret session. The WORT
: in arms could not conquer the Unite,
d States on its own soil, B0r five such world
II in arms The people of the United State
were invincible in any such struggle a
J. that. But, in a maritime war. who coul
= answer for the result? Who wanted t
2 run the risk of throwing down tn
:. gauge OF battle in any such contest? VIII
wanted IN invite Such contest hOwavn